Excerpt from The Origin of Floral Structures Through Insect and Other Agencies
The belief that we must look mainly to the environment as furnishing the influences which induce plants to vary in response to them - whereby adaptive morphological (including anatomical) structures are brought into existence - appears to be reviving. To illustrate the progress of this belief, I will give a few cases.
In 1795, Geoffroy Saint Hilaire "seems to have relied chiefly on the conditions of life, or the 'monde ambiant,' as the cause of change."
In 1801, Lamarck" attributed something to the direct action of the physical conditions of life" as the means of modification, "something to the crossing of already existing forms, and much to use and disuse."
In 1831, Mr. Patrick Matthew (who, like Dr. W. C. Wells in 1818, anticipated Mr. Darwin in the theory of "natural selection") "seems to have attributed much influence to the direct action of the conditions of life."
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